Israel has ordered an investigation into the deadly killing of Mount Meron in the Middle East News

An accident in April killed 45 people at a Jewish pilgrimage site deemed dangerous by authorities.

The new Israeli government has approved an official investigation into a seal in April that killed 45 people and injured dozens at a Jewish pilgrimage site dangerously filled by authorities.

Although it was the worst civil disaster in the country, it underwent an in-depth investigation Deaths on Mount Meron it remained under the previous government between clashes between ultra-Orthodox Jews and opposition politicians.

“The responsibility to learn lessons and prevent the next catastrophe lies with us,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday at his first cabinet meeting.

“A commission cannot return those who have disappeared, but the government can do everything it can to prevent the loss of unnecessary lives in the future.”

According to a cabinet document, the findings of the polls will help support other mass crowd events as it has sacred sites for Israel, Islam and Christianity and Judaism.

Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered on April 30 for the annual Lag B’Omer festival, which includes all-night prayer, mystical singing and dancing at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s second-century Galilean hill.

This year’s numbers have been lower than in previous years, but beyond those allowed by the honest COVID-19s.

Some Israelis questioned whether Benjamin Netanyahu and the former police government were reluctant to limit the size of the crowd due to pressure from influential ultra-Orthodox leaders.

During the ceremony, part of the crowd climbed into a narrow tunnel 45 men and boys they were asphyxiated or oppressed.

Police are already conducting a probe and the Israeli government guard, who a few years ago declared the site of Mount Meron dangerous, has announced his investigation, although he cannot file criminal charges.

Netanyahu promised to conduct an in-depth investigation, but his cabinet minister, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish minister, never took any formal action and strong hostilities between Israeli and Palestinian groups in Gaza erupted just two weeks later.

Bennett himself is religiously observant, but his broad coalition does not include him among the ultra-Orthodox parties. In his cabinet remarks, Meron said he excludes Jews from “all sectors,” citing other non-ultra-Orthodox designations.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who pushed for the investigation, said his findings would carry “significant weight” and could not be ruled out.

The government said a commission of inquiry led by a judge will have a budget of six million shekels ($ 1.8 million).